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(No Model.) I I J: R. MIKE'SEL'L; I THILL COUPLING- No. 508,896.Patented Nov.14,11893.

' UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JACOB MIKESELL, OF CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JERRIEMIKESELL, OF SAME PLACE.

THlLL-COU PLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,896, dated November14-, 1893.

Application filed July 31,1893- Serial No. 482.013. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

1% it known that I, JACOB R. MIKESELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Charlotte, in the county of Eaton and State of Michigan,have invented a new and useful Thill-Ooupling, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to improvements in thill couplings.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofthill couplings, and to provide a simple and inexpensive combined thillcoupling and anti-rattler, in which the thill or pole-eye will becushioned when in operative position, and will be loosened when loweredto facilitate changing, and in which the cushion may be adjusted forwardand secured in such adjustment to provide a positive anti-rattler.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figurel is a perspective view of a thill couplingconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings. f

l desiguatesan axle clip, provided with forwardly extending side plates2 having depending ears at their front ends and having pivoted betweenthe latter by a coupling bolt 2, an eccentric eye 3 of a thill iron 4,which is cushioned by a block 5 of rubber or similar elastic material.The cushion 5 has a concaved front face, and is arranged in rear of andis adapted to engage the eccentric eye 3, which bears against thecushion and is prevented rattling when it is in an elevated positionwhen the vehicle is in use; but when the shafts or pole is lowered byreason of resting on the ground, after unhitching, the eccentric eyeispartially rotated sufficiently to carry it out of engagement with thecushion 5 to enable shafts to be removed for the attachment of a pole,and vice versa. The cushion may be advancedas it becomes worn, and it isheld at the proper adjustment by a horizontally disposed bolt 6,arranged in horizontal slots 7 of the side plates 2 of the axle clip.The

head of the bolt .bears against the outer face of one of the sideplates, and a nut 7 engages the other side plate and securely clamps thecushion, which is provided with 'a perforation to receive the bolt 6.

It will be seen that the coupling and antirattler is simple andcomparatively inexpensive in construction, that it forms a positiveanti-rattler, and that it facilitates the changing of shafts for a poleand vice versa.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of constructionmay be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificingany of the advantages of this invention. Y

What I claim is- A combined coupling and anti-rattler com prising anaxle clip provided with forwardly extending side plates having dependingears and provided above the same with horizontal slots, a coupling bolt,an eccentric eye pivotally mounted between the ears by the couplingbolt, an elastic cushioning block arranged in rear of the eccentric eyeand engaged by the same When the eye is in operative position, and asecuring bolt passing through the adjustable cushioning block andarranged in .said slots and holding the cushioning block at any desiredadjustment, substantially as described.

In testimony thatl'claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JACOB R. MIKESELL.

Witnesses: I

' FRANK G. BAKER,

J. B. SMITH.

